“Stuff like that should not be made, let alone put up for sale in Britain.”

According to a report on The Sun, the dress was made in an Indian ­factory before being shipped into the UK. Stall-holder Jaspir Bhatti, 44, handed the polyester gown to The Sun to destroy. One onlooker said: “It’s disgusting.

At first glance it just looks like a bright dress. But when you look closer it shows two jets exploding as they hit the towers — it’s sick.”

The most surprising part of the whole story is indeed the origin of the dress. Bhatti said that there was ‘no way he would sell a dress like that’, saying it was the ‘wrong thing to do’, and ‘terrifying’.

Bhatti believed he had bought the dress as part of a job lot from a wholesaler. But when approached by The Sun, the company proved it had not come from them.